A blog following the life and times of Elder Chris Paxton, called to serve in the Idaho Boise Spanish Speaking Mission.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Orange Ties

Dear all,

This week has gone by so fast. The days feel so long but theweeks are so fast. I am thinking that is how life goes. Thedays get longer and longer but the weeks, months, andyears go by faster and faster.

We still have no word on when our night sacramentswill start. We are hoping that it is very soon. Our supergood investigator is going to try to ask for this andmaybe next Sunday off so he can come to church,which would mean if he could stop drinking he wouldget baptized within weeks, I think.

We have also found a couple of new potentialinvestigators from doing some tracting. They seemto be pretty interested, we left a Book of Mormonwith one and he said that he is going to read it.We have also found a lot of angry Jehovah's Witnesseshere, more than I have ever seen and they alsoseem like they do a very good job at their missionarywork, which sometimes makes our life a little harder.One of our inv. was talking to a jw and the jw's pointof how we were wrong is that our book doesn't havethe word Noah in it, which I really don' t understandwhy that would really matter but it does have theword Noah in it if you just read it (Mosiah 12and others) so the jw here really don't like us.We have knocked on a few doors and they are justso excited to tell us how wrong we are, mostly byusing scriptures out of context, it is pretty funnyand I just laugh inside, out loud when we are farenough away.

Not a whole lot has happened this past weekEnglish classes are going pretty well. We areworking as hard as we can and really enjoying life.We are not looking forward to President Yardleyleaving on the 28th, but we are getting excited forPresident Cannon to come. At President Yardley'slast zone conference last week we all had on ourorange ties. That is his favorite color, it was prettycool to see. We Mormon missionaries really did alllook the same.